Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Japanese lawmakers who attempted to visit Ulleung Island yesterday were successfully repelled by Korean border guards at Gimpo International Airport after they attempted to begin a fact-finding tour. The provocation was deliberately designed to be culturally insensitive, as it is well-known that facts are highly offensive to the Korean people.

The lawmakers claimed they wanted to visit the Dokdo Museum on Ulleung Island, to try and 'learn' how the territorial problem is viewed in South Korea. Dokdo is wrongly called Takeshima by the Japanese, and wrongly called the Liancourt Rocks by the so-called 'International Community'. Tokyo has repeatedly said that it wishes to refer the so-called 'dispute' - which is not a dispute at all because Korean sovereignty over Dokdo is a fact in Korea - to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, even though it knows that President Lee Myung-bak can not agree to this because he is busy doing his hair.

In May this year, three Korean lawmakers visited the Kuril islands, which were Japanese territory until they were occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945. Japan's opposition to the trip provoked the lawmakers to send a letter of complaint to the Japanese Embassy in Seoul stating "Our trip was legitimate parliamentarian activity. A complaint from Japan is an intervention against Korean sovereignty." Japan is evidently unashamed of its blatant double-standard in subsequently trying to send three lawmakers to Ulleung.

While Korea has little intelligence on Japan, it is believed the ultra-rightwingers were hoping to retailiate for the Korean Kuril visit, and change their party's diminished status at home as part of their 'Dokdo Crusade'. The Crusaders' trip to Ulleung was secretly believed to be a cover, and they really intended to try and make their way to Dokdo and push it into disputed territory using their secret robotic implants.

Even 69 year-old Japanese-born President Lee Myung-bak said he could not guarantee the safety of his fellow countrymen, instead apparently choosing to take the Korean side by dispatching one of his top aides, 67 year-old Lee, to stand guard on Dokdo to prevent the Japanese lawmakers from attempting to swim from Ulleung to the islands. Despite his advanced age and increasingly diminutive stature, the 67 year-old aide won the Korea Cage-Fighting Championship three years in a row from 1970-75. Other Korean lawmakers have said they will come to Dokdo to prove to the world, once again, that Dokdo is our territory.

After the Japanese dogs were heroically repelled from Gimpo International Airport, which they will probably now try to claim as their territory as well, Tokyo filed an official protest at the prevention of free movement of its elected representatives, which technically breaches diplomatic and international laws although Korea was never keen on them anyway. But Seoul said the lawmakers were turned back legitimately after testing positive for radiation.

Korean lawmakers say that in response they will step up their regular visits to the occupied Korean island of Daemado - which is wrongly called Tsushima by occupying Japanese forces. The Korean government says that despite Tokyo's outrageous international provocation, it will "continue to pursue a calm and logical approach to the coming war with Japan."